Improvement in umbrella-cases



1. c. HUBCDMBE.

. Umbrella-Cases. N0. 146,827, Patented Jan. 27, 187 4.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. HURCOMBE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO DAVID V.

ODIORNE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,827, dated J anua-ry 27, 1874; application filed November 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN G. HUROOMBE, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Cases for Umbrellas, of which the following is a description:

Metallic eyelets have been employed under a variety of circumstances for strengthening the edges of openings through flat fabrics. In some instances the eyelet has been employed at the union of the sections of cloth forming the cover of an umbrella.

My invention relates to an improvement in the tubular ease employed for containing .the umbrella in a folded or rolled-np condition.

Heretofore it has been usual to insert a metal ring at the small end of the case and tie the fabric of the case to the same by a winding of thread around such ring and fabric; but the thread is liable to break and the ring to out the fabric.

My invention relates to an umbrella-case with a compound eyelet attached at the smaller end, so as to confine the fabric between the metal parts of the eyelet imlependent of any winding of thread.

In the drawing I have shown a portion of the case sectionally in Figure 1, and in Fig. 2 the parts of the eyelet are represented detached.

The case a is usually made of glazed muslin and sewed up into a nearly cylindrical form while wrong side out. The case is inserted over a post or anvil, and the metallic eyelet I) laid upon the anvil, and the metallic ring 0 placed over the fabric at the extreme end, and then the parts are pressed together and the eyelet turned over upon the fabric, so as to confine the two folds ofthe fabric and the rin 0 between the top and bottom flanges of the eyelet. The case is now turned so as to bring the right side outwardly, and the case is finished. 

